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The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame inducted 11 new members this week in Gainesville, Florida, at an event sponsored by Mopar Performance Parts and hosted by drag racing legend and Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist, Don Garlits.

The event was held March 15 at the Paramount Plaza Resort in Gainesville.

Bernstein has come out of retirement to return to Funny Car racing. He won six NHRA championships. Bradley is the only Top Fuel driver to win one NHRA race in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Hampton is a champion racer and supercharger manufacturer. Jones is a drag strip owner, promoter and automotive television producer.
McLennan owns Champion Speed Shop, along with being a noted car builder, driver and drag strip owner. Pulde is the winningest IHRA Funny Car driver in history. Schumacher owns several Top Fuel and Funny Car operations today, but in the past he was a top competitor in his “Stardust” ’Cuda and has five NHRA wins and nine IHRA victories in Funny Car. Uyehara is a champion dragster builder, Zeuschel is a legendary dragster builder and now builds airplane racing engines. Zimmerman is a longtime NHRA Division V director. Bader will receive the Founders Award, for his work as a drag racing promoter and owner of Norwalk (Ohio) Raceway Park as well as the IHRA, which he purchased in 1998.
For detailed biographies of this year’s inductees, go to Don Garlits’ Web site www.garlits.com.

(This post originally appeared in the March 15, 2007, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)